Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-11-03

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s. TIE Kankakee lind marsh lands nave
been swept over by fire Much properly
was destroyed, the burnt dlstr1ct peins
nine miles square 81 "a
ONE of the most severe snow anuA |" -
storr,s ever known at the Black Hills SET IN
on the 23d. Eight inches OF snow ieii "nO
the drifts seriously impeded travel
TIE other morning a battery OF SIX
steam boilers in the Lawrence iron WORKS
at Trenton. O., exploded, killing Tnomas
and Mike Dwyer, brothers, Thomas DAVIS
and Peter Clay and wounding twenty
others.
GENERAL WADDY THOMPSON died at MS
home in Lamonte, Mo-, on the 24tn, aiIer
an iliLess of two weeks, OF Br1ghts disease
RooD & MAXWELL, OF Washourn, WIS.,
the heaviest lumbermen doing business on
the bav. have been closed out by the sheriff
on an attachment issued by the Third Ma
tional Bank OF st. Paul to secure an ao-
vance of sos, 600. Other liabilities not
stated.
COWBOYS from the range Of the Aztec
Cattle Company, fifty miles south OF Hoi-
brook, ARR, report troubles with rowing
bands Of the White Mountain Apache In
dians who are stealing stock and driving
their plumber into the reservation.
Baltimore & Ohio, arrived at Milwaukee,
Wis. on the oath quite sick. 1t was as
serted that his mind was seriously al
fected.
FIVE hundred cases of typhoid fever
were reported in Cincinnati on the 25th.
THE first formal step of any Knight OF
Labor Assembly to join the secession from
the order was taken in Chicago on the 18th
by local assembly No. 1907, of which Far
sons. the Anarchist, is leader
THE assignee OF the Sturgeon Bay (W1s-)
Lumber Company places its assets at Sl2O,-
COO and it's liabilities at SlSO,OOO.
THE Acknowledgement of Indiana has
fled a suit against the Mutual Aid Insur-
ance Company, of Elkhart, as an illegal
institution. Its organizers were driven out
of Michigan for doing graveyard 1nsur-
ance business.
THE gas works at Sioux City, Oak, ex-
ploded recently. An old man was badly
hurt and two boys were bruised. Several
persons had miraculous escapes. Damage,
$4,000.
A FREIGHT train on the Midland railroad
was derailed near Florissant, Col, the other
morning by broken rail. Fireman Tor
bett of Leadville, and Brakeman Dave
Kelly were caught beneath the engine.
Their heads were crushed to jelly. En-
gineer Walter Meyer was perhaps fatally
injured.
FIVE thousand Grand Army men of Ohio.
Indiana and Kentucky paraded in Cincin-
natl on the 27th.
j. GRIFFITH, a freight conductor, and
Charles Eddy and j. Burchmel, freight
brakemen, have been arrested at Tucson,
Ariz., for robbing Southern Pacific cars.
THE Michigan Salt Association, which
controls the market west of Cleveland to
the Rocky mountains, will stop the manu-
facture of salt from December l to April
1 to reduce the large surplus now on the
market.
The sale of the Northwestern Manufac-
turing and Car Company's property at the
court house in Saltwater, MIMI, resulted
in the purchase of the works by the Min
nesota Thresher Company, upon the Sabin
place, for 81, 105, 600 20. The Porter party,
the only other bidder, dropped out after
bidding 81, 103, 900.
THE j. L. Regan Printing Company. one
OF the largest in Chicago. has been closed
on attachments for S60,617. The liabilities
were estimated at SIPS 0O0 and the assets at
$3.50, 900.
EIGHT of the convicts in the penitentiary
at Yuma, ArlZ., attempted 10 escape on the
9th. Three of the prisoners were killed
and three wounded. A life convict named
Riggs saved the life of Superintendent
Gales by taking pistol away from one of
the prisoners and killing the superintend-
ent'S aSSailant.